THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER is one of those stories that everybody knows, but few have ever heard, and rarely as well delivered as this. It’s a poem, you know, by Coleridge — from the very dawn of the Romantic Era — full of ice and snow and haunting spirits who punish an evil […]
AIGA is Sāmoan for family/whānau. Family is what Lusi Faiva (Lusi’s Story, Tuapou, Mr & Mrs Jones) almost lost, as a child institutionalised with cerebral palsy, then rediscovered. It’s the support of her theatre family now that lifts her up, works with her, helps her tell her story.
BEFORE KARMA GETS US is what this is called. But what the hell “it” is I’m really still struggling to say. It was mime, it was magic, it was artifice. It was art. My partner reckons she has never laughed so hard. So if it’s anything at all, it’s a success.
MEET ME AT DAWN messes with your mind. In a good way. It aims to cover a lot ground in its 65 minutes, and almost succeeds.
ROMEO & JULIET must be one of the world’s most well-known tropes. But not exactly a well-known play (spoiler alert: they both die in the end, you know). “Never was a tale of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” But before the woe we see young love, young hope, and great drama. […]
TWELFTH NIGHT brings the Pop-Up Globe’s rambunctious take on Shakespeare back to the heart of the city, and leaves the audience buzzing, if not bemused.
HYPERSPACE is a slick and joyous celebration of disco dance meets kapa haka, complete with a Shakespearean twist. It has it all. It touches your heart and digs deep. You are laughing but feeling a resounding truth. Something everybody knows — that looking good and moving your body is cool and fun and we are all […]
Tales Of An Urban Indian is definitely theatre with a difference. When writers say things like “the drama took me on a journey,” this time it’s meant literally.
CHAIRS! starts off like a long-lost episode of the The Twilight Zone, yet unfortunately doesn’t really know how to finish.
The Music Man is back! The big-band musical premiere on Broadway way back in 1957 and now it is playing for four nights at Auckland’s Aotea Centre. The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda was there.